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(0)Chia Youyee Vang
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
ix, 92 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Minnesota has always been a land of immigrants. Successive waves have each made their own way, found their place, and made it their home. The Hmong are one of the most recent immigrant groups, and their remarkable and moving story is told in Hmong in Minnesota.Chia Youyee Vang reveals the colorful, intricate history of Hmong Minnesotans, many of whom were forced to flee their homeland of Laos when the communists seized power during the Vietnam War....
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxviii, 348 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Countering the idea of Hmong women as victims, Claiming Place demonstrates how the scholarly emphasis on men as the primary culprits of women's subjugation perpetuates the perception of a Hmong premodern status and renders unintelligible women's nuanced responses to patriarchal strategies of domination in the United States and in Southeast Asia. The contributors expand knowledge about the Hmong lived reality and broaden conversations on sexuality,...